paintball hopper / backpack
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Topic: paintball hopper / backpack
Posted By: unwritten
Subject: paintball hopper / backpack
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 3:32pm
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I was thinking of a hopper that would be placed in a back pack, there would be an air tank which you could easily refill in there that would put pressure into a tube. That tube would take the hopper fed paintballs out of the backpack and into your gun. Pros- you could carry more paint without ever having to reload on the field. -Cons would hurt a player trying to maneuver the snake or awkward positions. The ideal use would be for a back player that would stand and kneel. I have a prototype under construction but I was just wondering what you thought of the basic concept. |
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Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 3:53pm
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Backpack + warpfeed = that idea. Its been brought up, and done. Theres no real point unless you have a giant tank, or else you'll have to refill the tank anyway. |
Posted By: unwritten
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 4:54pm
| Is there a place where you can get one? If its been done then ill just try to make it better. |
Posted By: daniero
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 6:52pm
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It already exists, http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/forum_posts.asp?TID=151061&KW=turtle+backpack - check it out . |
Posted By: unwritten
Date Posted: 09 August 2006 at 7:35pm
| alright, thnx for pointing that out ill just have to figure out how to improve it. |
Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 10 August 2006 at 4:02am
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unwritten wrote:Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 10 August 2006 at 4:18am
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^^^ I'd buy it. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: sniper6
Date Posted: 10 August 2006 at 10:30pm
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whatever happened with the TurtleBackPack deal is he producing it? if not, i want to figure out how to make one |
Posted By: daniero
Date Posted: 11 August 2006 at 12:34pm
Send an email...  who knows, it looked like an awesome idea, but the thread died and there hasn't been a word about it.As for improvement... faster feedrate? it was a slow feed rate if I can remember correctly, slow as in between 8 - 12bps, it's not bad actually but some may want to be refilling their backpacks faster  . |
Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 12 August 2006 at 4:52pm
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Warpfeed.
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Posted By: sniper6
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 11:57pm
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How about you get two cheap agitating hoppers, like a Viewloader, and cut the top half off them. Then, get two warpfeeds and hook the hoppers up to them. Place them in a backpack, put a Y connector and you have yourself a 25 bps feeder system. You may have to work something out with the warpfeeds though, because if I remember right, they dont feed if there is any backpressure. So, instead of the balls meshing in the Y, one WF might not feed at all. You could just run 2 tubes to a TacCap and Problem solved. Although it Would be a little bulkier. You could also get a plastic box of some sort for the backpack so you don't have to work about balls breaking. |